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...John's College, the country's most prominent "Great Books College," with campuses in Maryland and New Mexico, offers a curriculum taken by many to be a definitive canon of great works...
Miller's plays, including 1947's "All My Sons," 1949's "Death of a Salesman" and 1953's "The Crucible" have become part of the canon of American literature...
Undergraduates are also expected to revere an ideological canon; so many classes begin with a professor intoning that the course will expose students to the "great thinkers" of a particular field. This intellectual approach would not be quite so distressing if students were also exposed to more nontraditional ideologies or exhorted to critique the "great thinkers." For example, in many courses dealing with international relations, Harvard offers little critique of American patriotism or nationalism, and issues such as America's neo-imperialism and often brutal treatment of Third World nations are not even acknowledged. Many of these courses, with their...
Hagen suggests that a number of factors may be contributing to the trend, including disagreements about what works make up a canon of knowledge, encouragement to think about senior theses early on and increasing specialization in the research interests of Faculty...
Specialization also poses a threat to the historic notion that undergraduates should study a classical canon of knowledge...